[chandler-users] Fwd: View Selector

[Andre Mueninghoff]

Hi Mimi, Hi Keith,

The example I was thinking about is very similar to Keith's, I think,
but Keith's user story is better. As I think of more stories, I will
post them.

My typical case is to be in the calendar view and, triggered by a
particular item in the day or week calendar view, to have a desire to
view events related to this event. I do this by switching to the table
view, sorting on the title column, and scrolling to the grouping of
interest. I have had the case where I had initially created a recurring
event series, and later had changed the date of instances of the event
in an irregular manner. As Keith also mentioned, it is easier and faster
to find and view them all in the table than to look for them in the
calendar. As I type this, I realize I could also use search to
accomplish this. Given the recent improved reliability and performance
of search, I will be playing with using search to accomplish the same thing.

(Which reminds me that a potentially neat future item when the table is
sorted by title would be the ability to type a letter and have the focus
jump to the first item starting with that letter.)

Thanks, Andre

Keith Winsor wrote:
> Mimi Yin wrote:
>> whoops, forgot to cc: list.
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> *From: *Mimi Yin <mimi at osafoundation.org <mailto:mimi at osafoundation.org>>
>>> *Date: *June 25, 2007 5:47:56 AM PDT
>>> *To: *Keith Winsor <kjwstuff at btopenworld.com 
>>> <mailto:kjwstuff at btopenworld.com>>, Andre Mueninghoff 
>>> <andre_mueninghoff at fastmail.fm <mailto:andre_mueninghoff at fastmail.fm>>
>>> *Subject: **View Selector*
>>>
>>> Hi Keith and Andre,
>>>
>>> There are a number of directions we can go with view selection 
>>> functionality. Could you elaborate a bit on when you want to change the view 
>>> on the data you're looking at? In particular, which application areas with 
>>> which views and what you're trying to accomplish with each of those views. 
>>> (For example: I would like to see all of my scheduled tasks on a calendar 
>>> without any events so that I can...)
>>>
>>> That would be very helpful, Thanks! Mimi
>>>
>>>> I'm with Andre - I switch between views to get a different slant on things. 
>>>> What *would* be useful would be toolbar buttons to switch between these views.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Keith
>>>>
>>>> *From: *Andre Mueninghoff <andre_mueninghoff at fastmail.fm 
>>>> <mailto:andre_mueninghoff at fastmail.fm>>
>>>>
>>>> I find the ability to switch between Triage Table View and Calendar View 
>>>> very useful in both OOTB collections and personal collections.
>>>> Thanks, Andre 
>>>>> - I found it very useful to have the ability to view calendar items also in 
>>>>> a table view in addition to the calendar date view, and I would prefer to 
>>>>> have it returned. (I guess I missed the list discussion where it was 
>>>>> decided to remove it or something.)
> Hi Mimi,
> 
> The sort of thing I'm thinking of is, I have irregular appointments with various 
> clients, all of which are entered in Chandler in a standard format (name, 
> details, etc). By flipping from Calendar view to Triage view and sorting by 
> Title, I can quickly bring together all appointments with a particular customer 
> (albeit in a somewhat haphazard order!), to review progress. Filtering by name 
> then sorting by date (takes more time but yields more straightforward results) 
> gives me the same overview, better organised.
>  
> Unfiltered sorting in date order gives me an overview of the coming few weeks, 
> more effectively than flipping through a week at a time, kind of like a month 
> view but probably easier to assimilate.
> 
> I'll try to post some more as my usage develops (I'm trusting recent versions of 
> Chandler much more with live data - subject to plenty of backups!)
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
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